Whom does the ABC call in Indonesia?

The ABC’s favourite go-to person for commentary on people smuggling and the Abbott Government’s policies is the entertainer Tantowi Yahya. There are a quarter of a billion people living in Indonesia and the ABC thinks that there is only one person – Yahya – to represent the Indonesian viewpoint. So much for diversity of opinion and balance. How much has the ABC paid Yahya for his interviews?

Those who were around during the Gulf War will remember how the ABC slavishly sought only the opinions of one Prof. Springborg who could be relied upon to sledge the government’s involvement – much to annoyance of the then Labor govt.

If this was all reversed the ABC, the Age, the SMH and all their supporters would be barracking absolutely madly for Labor Government and praising them for stopping the boats, and encouraging every policy.

“Whom does the ABC call”, please
I thought at first, Samuel J., that you were suggesting that there is a particular call, “ABC call”—rather like a rebel yell, perhaps—, and you were asking who does it.

You’re a better man than I am, Stuviewer! Perhaps it’s only you who’ve had the grim forbearance to observe our ABC long enough to notice, and for this alone you deserve our undying praise and admiration. Most of the rest of us plugged our ears with beeswax and bugged out long, long ago.

Viva
#1167596, posted on January 26, 2014 at 11:23 am
Those who were around during the Gulf War will remember how the ABC slavishly sought only the opinions of one Prof. Springborg who could be relied upon to sledge the government’s involvement – much to annoyance of the then Labor govt.

Well done Viva – and best not to to forget the ABC refused to broadcast messages to ADF personnel in the area.

the abc ‘has obtained’ footage of burnt refugee hands,proving institutional racism and brutality in the australian armed forces.

the australian cattle trade was closed down overnight by ‘footage the abc has obtained’. the abc assured us that the cattle footage was not staged,or set up by activists,that the footage was something that just happened.

should we take footage rich activists obtain in a poor country,and watch it while aware of the possibility that it is ‘work made for hire’? can rich activists be told and shown things by poor people that reinforces the wealthy’s existing groupthink?.

the abc has increased its losses past one and a quarter billion dollars a year,and in return has grown too big to be accountable.

i should have said that the abc,as publicity officers of the mass migration industry,have obtained footage of clients of the mass migration industry that proves that opponents of the mass migration industry should immediately cease and desist their efforts to oppose the business model that underpins the leftie efforts to obtain taxpayer funded clients for life. people are money,and the right sort of clients underpin taxpayer funded cashflow for the right sort of people.